News of Men In Service

Robert W. Maurer, G. M. 3/c, writes that he is now in Tokyo Bay on board the Ancon. Also aboard are 65-75 war correspondents, including one from the Milwaukee Journal. Their ship is being used as headquarters for radio and press news service. Near it are the Battleship Iowa, South Dakota and the Missouri, several English ships and many destroyers.

Mr. and Mrs. J. P. Klassy, on Monday, had a cablegram from their daughter, Lieut. Irma Klassy, of the Army Nurse Corps, saying she had arrived at Manila.

Pfc. Harrison J. Schuett has been here from Ft. Snelling, Minn, visiting his wife and daughter.

Corp. Conrad Heiman has been honorably discharged from the Army after several years of service overseas.

Arthur Keppler, son of Mr. and Mrs. Ruben Keppler, has been promoted to Private, first class. He is on his way from Hawaii to Japan.

Pvt. Edward Lee, son of Mr. and Mrs. Orville Lee, who was inducted into the Army last week, is stationed at Ft. Sheridan, Ill.

Sgt. Richard J. Gmur, who was recently home on furlough from Europe, is now at Camp Campbell, Ky.

Norman Disch, son of Mr. and Mrs. Jacob Disch, Exeter, has been accepted for service in the Navy and expects to be inducted soon. He is a 1945 graduate of New Glarus High School.

Mr. and Mrs. Frank F. Brown and daughter, Barbara Jo, returned recently from Long Beach, Calif. Mr. Brown received his discharge from the Navy.

Norman O. Hanna, son of Mr. and Mrs. Adolph Hanna, who was inducted into the Navy in July, has completed his boot training at the Great Lakes Naval Training Station and is now at Camp Parks, Shoemaker, Calif. He attended high school here for several years.

Pvt. Walter Kruesi is probably on the way to the Pacific War Area. His new address is now: Pvt. Walter Kruesi 36847630 Casual Co. No. 1—Platoon 3 A. P. O. 21234--% P. M. San Francisco. Calif.

Lieut. Kevin Lynch, who served as a Navy flyer in the Pacific for three years and has now been stationed at Pocasset, Mass., has been honorably discharged. He and his wife and daughter are here visiting the home of Mrs. Lynch’s parents, Mr. and Mrs. Robert Streiff. Lieut. Lynch served for a year as a dive bomber in the Pacific and has the Navy Cross and air medal.

First Lieut. Eugene F. Stuessy, 26-year-old 77th Division platoon leader who was wounded on Okinawa, has been admitted to Percy Jones General Hospital, at Fort Custer, Mich. Stuessy, whose wife, Helen, and 16-month-old son live in New Glarus, lost his left leg below the knee when an artillery shell landed about 15 feet from him while he was acting as an observer. A Chemical Warfare service officer, he was a student at the University of Wisconsin before he entered service Sept. 7, 1941.

Pfc. James W. Hamilton, Spence Field, Moultrie, Ga., has been spending a furlough here at the home of his mother, Mrs. Louis Schoch.

Mr. and Mrs. Rudolph Kundert, Madison, have received worked that their son, Dr. Palmer Kundert, has been made Lieutenant Commander in the Navy, retroactive as of July 10. He served 11 months in a Navy hospital in Jacksonville, Fla., and 22 months in the Russell Islands in the South Pacific. He is now at a Navy hospital in Medford, Oregon. His wife is the former Kathryn Mauer.